Sentence examples for abandoned estates from inspiring English sources

The Montserrat Company, formed in 1857 under the direction of Joseph Sturge, bought abandoned estates, encouraged the cultivation of limes, and sold plots of land to settlers.

Their town palazzi grew in size and splendour, to the detriment of the abandoned estates, which were still expected to provide the revenue.

In 2001, Mr. Saladino bought an abandoned estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., built in the 1920s by an architect named Wallace Frost.

Burle Marx's most elaborate and time-consuming effort, however, may have been an abandoned estate he bought on the outskirts of the city in 1948 and turned into a home, studio and garden complex.

Lying amongst the shards of wood on an abandoned estate in north London are a rusty electric iron, the mouthpiece of a recorder, and a child's water pistol: the domestic paraphernalia of once settled lives.

ALSO: PHOTOS: Inside Ukraine president's abandoned estate Uganda anti-gay law called 'abhorrent,'deeplyly offensive' In a key reform, Pope Francis announces new agency to oversee Vatican finances [email protected] Twitter: @mcdneville Sandels is a special correspondent.

ALSO: PHOTOS: Inside Ukraine president's abandoned estate Uganda anti-gay law called 'abhorrent,'deeplyly offensive' In a key reform, Pope Francis announces new agency to oversee Vatican finances [email protected] Twitter: @TracyKWilkinson.

ALSO: PHOTOS: Inside Ukraine president's abandoned estate Uganda anti-gay law called 'abhorrent,'deeplyly offensive' In a key reform, Pope Francis announces new agency to oversee Vatican finances Hassan is a special correspondent.

"If you consider people in black masks and with Kalashnikovs strolling around Kiev the government, we will find it complicated to work with such government," he said.]. ALSO: PHOTOS: Inside Ukraine president's abandoned estate Uganda anti-gay law called 'abhorrent,'deeplyly offensive' In a key reform, Pope Francis announces new agency to oversee Vatican finances [email protected]@latimes.com

The irony this time – or one of the ironies, at least – is that, according to local resident and blogger Chris Morris, when locals tried previously to use parts of the abandoned estate for vegetable growing and art shows, they encountered "obstruction" from the council.

The hundred-mile drive along the Costa del Sol, from Málaga to Tarifa, suggests a fireless apocalypse — abandoned housing estates and apartment blocks, golf-links Serengetis, acres of asphalt going to seed.